I'm glad devs are doing good job to try bring us the game we all here are waiting for.Cossacks: European Wars, developed by GSC Game World is a Real Time Strategy and Tactical War based MMO video game.
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So far coming settlers looks like I would imagine where with new graphic and game mechanics its base on the roots of Settlers 1 or 2. Settlers and HoMaM are games for specific audience and I think it should stay like that. Don't think this game will be like Fortnight or any other commercial games. Heroes Of Might and Magic 3 is example when game can have years but it's still playable by many people but for sure not everyone. We need to remember this days a lot of games after hype die after 2 months. Settlers is the game which aim for specific player base and it's not for everyone.
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Now this days player base is different and its hard to satisfy everyone. All was about tactical attacks on opponent buildings to damage his economy to the stage where he couldn't make more soldiers.good times. Looking at your farms growing and then converting it to bread which went to miners who dig gold for you for your golden armor soldiers. All about settlers was sitting on the front of the computer and playing hours with my friend on share screen of 15' monitor and two mouses plugged in to one PC! Yes that was multiplayer-co-op experience which I never forget from this game.
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Looking at progression of this The Settlers I can see more like its should be than it was in 3 to 7th. The Settlers 2 Gold edition was imo one of the best games from whole series. One bad move and you are done! No save game option! That was really settlers feeling. Finishing all settlers missions ware challenging specially mission 31 if I good remember. The game play was much better than Dune 2 or any other games available at that time. I do remember really well and after intro of the game I did fall in love. Not sure if all remember when Settlers 1 came out on Amiga and later on PC. Of course this should only be an optional setting for when starting a new game Kinda like if each map was just a small globe. The only thing I wish to see a return of (as an option for some maps) is the "No end of the map", meaning that if you had an enemy to the east, you could just expand to the west until you reached the other side of the enemy. Of course I have fond memories of the very first Settlers game, but Veni Vidi Vici improved everything from the original, so there is no reason going back. You no longer had the "What you see is what you get" part when it came to resources, they introduced heroes (something that I have never liked in real time strategy games and probably never will) and the AI was literally non-existent (I don't have time to play multiplayer, so this just killed it for me) If I remember correctly it took everything that defined a Settlers game and threw it away. The worst Settlers game is without doubt Heritage of Kings. On the downside it does have a stupid campaign, maybe the worst campaign I have ever seen in a game) The different cultures you can play are vastly different from each other, while keeping the gameplay of The Settlers II. My favorite Settlers game is Rise of Cultures (not available in English), which takes The Settlers II to a new level, which until this game was released was my favorite. I didn't even try Settlers 7 when it came out, I only got it now as History Edition and didn't get a chance to play it yet, so I don't know what happens there. I liked the previous simple world better. I don't know why, but the heroes and attempts to have deeper stories just don't do it for me in this type of game. Settlers 6 got a little bit of old Settlers feel back with resource system, but it's still different. It wasn't exactly bad game, it was still fun to play, but it felt nothing like previous Settlers. No more detailed resources, and everything started to revolve around basically immortal heroes. For me, Settlers game was defined by a) detailed system where you could see every single piece of raw material being collected, transported, processed and final product used, and b) simple world where everyone was equal and working hand in hand to reach the goal.
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Unsuprisingly, Settlers 4 turned out to be the best of them (computers took huge steps back then, allowed new things to be done and it shows). Settlers 2-4, even though there were some changes, were evolution of the same thing. I never played Settlers 1, I have it now as History Edition, so I'll give it a try in future, but I'm not sure if it will still be fun.